Electrical Power Systems Engineer - Advanced Development Programs

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Overview

As part of a small, passionate, and accomplished advanced concepts team, you will be responsible for the architecture and design of Electrical Power Systems for various spaceflight systems, which includes power generation, storage, regulation, and distribution to vehicle subsystems and payloads. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration, and your dedicated commitment and detailed attention will further the cause of safe and repeatable spaceflight.

Responsibilities

Create and maintain Electrical Power System (EPS) budgets that track power generation, consumption and storage during all relevant portions of a mission.

Select electrical power system architectures appropriate for the mission from options such as direct-energy transfer, battery-clamped, peak-power tracking, and myriad regulation schemes.

Establish margin and power consumption growth allowance best practices for conceptual design.

Create and maintain drawings and diagrams for power distribution, system grounding, and bonding

Create models and simulation of the EPS to evaluate use cases and conditions